“My whole life I have actually been training to be a stunt man without realizing it. I have always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it.”

- Steve Truglia

“The world of extreme sports is also one of the big businesses. Kids might think that snowboarding is the ultimate freedom, but this freedom is being marketed to them by commercial sponsors.”

- Lucy Walker

“I am riveted by extreme sports like big-wave Surfing, ‘megaramp’ skateboarding and halfpipe snowboarding. I am fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I am also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.”

- Lucy Walker

“To die would be an awfully big adventure”

- J. M. Barrie

“It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as and adventure into cynicism.”